PHOTO: SIMON O’CONNOR/STUFF – Waitara’s Jeannie Boon is struggling to make ends meet after the council put her leasehold up by thousands of dollars.
A Taranaki couple living on leasehold land are facing financial ruin and risk losing their home after their land lease increased by 1500 per cent.
Jeannie and Richard Boon live on one of about 700 leasehold properties in Waitara and have been paying a lease of $370 a year for the past 21 years.
But in August last year the New Plymouth District Council (NPDC), which administers the leases, raised the rent to $5940 – an increase of about $110 a week.
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